Corker (Packet, 1912-1920)
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BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
BOAT TYPE: Packet
BUILT: Jeffersonville, Indiana, Howard Ship Yards, 1912
BECAME: General Beach
FINAL DISPOSITION: Bought by Liberty Transit Company and renamed General Beach, 1920
OWNERS: Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Company; Liberty Transit Company
RIVERS: Ohio River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1323; Cincinnati, Ohio was her home port or the owner's residence circa 1912; her original price was $8,224; machinery and cabin came from the Lizzie Bay. Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Company had her for the Louisville-Madison trade. G. F. Bauersmith brought her to Pittsburgh, October 1919, to run Pittsburgh-Fairmont; she made one trip and then was returned to Cincinnati. Liberty Transit Company, Wheeling, bought her for the Pittsburgh-Wheeling trade in 1920 and soon renamed her General Beach
PHOTO DESCRIPTION: At Madison Marine Ways
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